Controversial broadcaster |

in hospital, on Critical list

TORONTO (CP) — Gordon Sinclair, ;
veteran broadcaster and one of Canada’s:
best-known personalities, was in critical

eondliloti today’ after suffering a heart

attack;
A abok esman for Queeneway Hospital dn
suburban Toronto said Sinclair, 83, was-in

intensive care. The spokesman declined

further comment.

Siticlair - suffered. the heart’ attack
Tuesday while in a restaurant near his
home. He had done his regular CFRB
Tadio news commentary earlier in the day.

Sinclair made a career and handsome

living from advice he once gave ‘a young -

reporter — make yourself controversial.

. His preoccupation with money, penchant
for asking embarrassing questions as. a.
panelist on the long-running CBC program
Front Page Challetige and public attacks
on religion made Sinclair the man many -
Canadians’ love to hate.

Born in Toronto in 1900, Sinclair once |.
said he deliberately set out to become _ .

controversial because “‘] wasn't. getilng

. anywhere being mild-mannered.”

Gwyn (Jocko) Thomas, a veteran

reporter for the Toronto Star and CFRB

who started as an‘office boy at~ the

newspaper, said taday he remembers -

Sinclair when he was a Star reporter. |
“He'd sit there with his hat on just
waiting to rush out on/a story,” Thomas
said. “It was his work that brought the |
then Toronto Daily Star past the Evening»

Telegram.”

Sinclair's newspaper career, which ran .
off and on between 1923 and 1960 with The

Star, included a stint as a globe-trotting |

reporter, an early association with Ernest
Hemingway, a job as sports columnist and
a time‘as women's editor.

Sinclair, fired’ 11 times by The: Star

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INTRODUCIN

“ aller | In 1943 at age i.

Gordon Sinclair .

before ending his career at the newspaper —

voluntarily, was a pioneer with Front Page

Challenge, starting as a panelist in 1957

and appearing for more than 25 years.
In addition to his career in journalism,
Sinclair was a commercial spokesman for

Dominion Stores Ltd. for more than 20

years and an honorary: director of the
company. He also did commercials for
other companies.

_ He became something of a hero in the
United States in 1973 following a broadcast

that was turned into.a record and even-
tually brought “the biggest mail of my
career.”

‘Over the strains of the Battle Hymn of
the Republic, Sinclair castigated an
ungrateful world for turning against.the

U.S, — then beset by the energy crisis,

Watergate and the pall of the Vietnam War
— after accepting millions of dollars in
aid.

He once said his interest in money was
ingrained from childhood when his.
mother, a poor Scottish immigrant, im-
pressed on him a determination to become
rich.

“Money isn’t everything,’ he once
reflected. “But it's good for the nerves.”

Sinclair and his wife Gladys, formerly of
Mount Forest, Ont., had three sons:

Gordon, a radio.commentator in Mon-.

treal; Donald, an engineer in. Guelph,
Ont.;, and Jack, a -color technician in
Toronto. A daughter, Jean, died of a viral

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Th Herald, Wednesday, may ti “1984,: pave 7

Home computers are reputed to be terrific
games machines, keeping children and adults
endlessly entertained. But a computer is only
as good as the saftware you plug into it —- the ©
instructions that make a screen come alive in
color and sound with space invaders or
Pacman.

There are plenty of duds -among the
thousands of slickly packaged game
programs available for every popula brand of
computer, Most of the software costs between
$30 and $60, a price liable to leave the pur-
chaser of a poor game feeling ripped olf.
Products of lasting entertainment value are
rare,

Here’s a rundown and personal ratings for.
some current games:

Quest for Tires ($45), supplied ona cars:
tridge for the Adam computer, is produced by
Sydney Development Corp. of ' Vancotiver,
which has the exclusive world rights to use

Wizard of Id for computer games,

- Unfortunately, this game's use of B.C.
characters may be its only Claim to general -
appeal. Thor. moves along on his prehistoric

| unicycle with the object-of rescuing another

B.C, character from a dinosaur. The player
uses the controls on the computer joystick to
make Thor jump over rocks and duck under
tree branches, . while the action moves
boringly from left. to- ight.

Unimaginative. use is made of .the key

characters from the comic strips B.C. and -

A score card: on computer games

‘ingredients of sound effects and graphics, and

there is little variety in the game's overall

design.
Rating: D.

Hard Hat Mack -($52.50) was designed by:
two San Diego high school students for
Electronic Arts, a California software
company, and is supplied on disk for Apple,
Commodore and Atari computers.

This game is addictive. Use the joystick to
send.a little construction worker around the
girders of an unfinished building, riveting
pleces to fill the gaps. Other figures try to

block your path, but yau can teke an elevator -

or jump on a springboard to continue. .
Complete the first level and then go to a

different part of the construction site, where

you have to step on to conveyor ‘belts and

heists and pick up tool boxes, There are at

least six levels, offering sufficient challenge
for a long time.

The theme is unusual, sound affects ap-

‘ pealing and graphics superb. I. can’t help

thinking that even people who generally don't
like video games would enjoy this ane.
Rating: A

Poltergeist ($40), supplied on cartridge for
the Radio Shack color computer, is a good
example of misleading. packaging. The. box

~-has-a spooky design, showing a little girl s”
‘Thouetted in front of a glowing TV. “Tt knows --

- napped from her bedroom and the player

what. Scares you,” it says on the package, but
there’s nothing scary about this game.
The premise is that a girl has been kid:

must rescue her. A joystick is used to
negotiate a stick figure’s route through a
neighborhood street maze, collect various
objects and avaid being run over by traffic.

Other levels follow, but the player’s interest
quickly wanes, If the player makes a mistake,
he starts over at the first level, a fatal flaw in
the game's design. Graphics and sound are
poor,

Rating: D,

Kickman ($33), a Commodore product, is
supplied in cartridge format for thal com-
pany's C-4 computer.

_The player controls the movements of a
circus clown on a unicycle who tries to catch
on his head balloons falling from rows above.

The trick is to prevent balloons from hitting
the ground, kicking them if necessary up over
the clown’s head to join others raining on him.

Kickman is mederately entertaining, with
attractive graphics and a pleasant melody |.
that plays throughout the game, However, it
can be mastered fairly quickly, and any game
that does not keep challenging the player will
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Trials of. acting: Pythons and bugs

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress
Kate Capshaw had a choice: snakes
or bugs. .

The, order, came from: Steven

actors listen to. And so Capshaw,
who stars opposite Harrison Ford in
Inidiana Jones and the Temple of
Doom,. underwent the ordeal of
having a variety of tropical bugs
crawl over her bedy. .

[t could have been worse. In the
first Indiana Jones caper, Raiders
of the Lost Ark, Karen Allen had to
descend into a pit writhing with
hundreds of snakes. Capshaw had
only one to contend with.

“It was a python that was 14 feet
long and welghed 150 pounds,” she
recalled of ‘the filming at the Sri
Lanks location. “It was supposed to
wrap around me in a ‘pond, and it ©
didn't sound | like “something = E.

scape,

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“T-never said I wouldn't do the
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’ “Steven couldn't have been more .
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a ‘bug patrol’ to pick them off my
body as soon as he said ‘Cut.’ We
had a nice relationship throughout
the picture, He never asked me to
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and Best Defence with
Dudiey Moore and Eddie Murphy.

Not bad for a Missouri native who

was ‘teaching school a few years

. T; always: wanted ta. -act, ” Said _

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the 30-year-old actress, who grew
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After she had taught for a few”
me years, she and her husband decided

_ to try their fortunes in New York. .

_. “TI said ‘to hell with this,’ even
i f " though T realized I was leaving
to : , the worthy and admirable service
. of young minds for selfish reasons,"
she sald. “We literally went to New —
York ona: string’ ‘atid @ prayer.”

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